<p>St Ed’s and Southwestern are both schools we visited and think very highly of.</p>
<p>In addition to being very appealing, St Eds was very generous. yay. Actually so was Southwestern but they cost just a bit more.</p>
<p>It’s looking about 99% certain my D will be attending St Eds in fact - (still waiting on one piece of data before we can discuss it with our coach and sign a deal) I realize some people want the BFA but my daughter always leaned towards a BA in a smaller liberal arts type college and both of those schools offer that. That they are non auditioned does not mean the programs are either too big or with non quality students in them in schools like this - the schools aren’t big enough to have huge classes anyway, and they do have a review after a couple semesters. I rather like the review idea instead of auditioning to get in for my daughter because many of her best qualities (her attitude, work ethic, etc) don’t come across in a two minute audition. 
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<p>There are a few other good programs close to us also (we are only 50 miles from LA ourselves) which you will no doubt find in those threads. :-)</p>